This year was one of change for StartupNation: we restructured our website to serve you better, featuring improved article layout and author profiles. Our ongoing drive to provide readers with articles, audio and (coming soon in 2017!) native video that interests entrepreneurs, startups and small business owners most is one we will continue to strive for in the year to come.
Throughout 2016, we brought you a brand new mobile responsive website design and improved user navigation, exclusive book excerpts from best-selling authors, and continued to provide the highest quality content that today’s entrepreneurs expect from StartupNation.com.
Below, find a few highlights from our 2016 archives, which include articles written by industry-leading contributing writers, researchers, thought leaders and best-selling authors, compiled into our Year in Review:
Start a Business
- The seven most important lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs
- Five essential tips for starting a business
- Strategies for pitching your bootstrapped startup to the media to generate coverage
- Learn how to create a pitch deck in order to clearly communicate your business model
Grow Your Business
- The Sloan Brothers share the importance of inspiring your sales team
- Tips and best practices for search engine optimization and startups
- The top digital marketing tools of 2016, from email marketing to social media
- Mistakes to avoid when creating a marketing plan
Manage Your Business
- Entrepreneurs can look to lenders to fix mistakes on loan applications
- In this guide to incorporation, learn the benefits, as well as the different types of business incorporations
- Though it may be a subjective calculation, do you know the value of your company?
- Tactics for connecting your local and remote team members on a daily basis
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Book Excerpts
- Influencer Neil Patel says that over the long term, you must learn how to own your dreams
- The five things you need to know to build a career plan, as told by Brian Fetherstonhaugh
- “The Purpose is Profit” by Ed “Skip” McLaughlin gives an insider’s perspective on the startup process and how business really works
- Former Google career strategist Jenny Blake discusses the importance of having career conversations with management
